by Drick Boyd | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured
During the last year, I have been working on a book entitled Mystic Activists in which I explore and discuss how our spiritual practices such as prayer, contemplation, worship, and the like are absolutely essential to our work for social justice, specifically racial...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
I write these words the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, the day of the Women’s March in Washington, DC and cities across the nation. Circumstances do not allow me to participate, but my prayers and thoughts are...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday, June 21, I joined the Pennsylvania Principals Association for a news conference on the request for an increase in funding for public education throughout the state. In my role I was representing POWER. Four principals from across the state describe...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Looks like what drives me crazyDon’t have no effect on you –But I’m gonna keep on at itTil it drives you crazy too(“Evil,” Langston Hughes) Though I have read and studied many of Langston Hughes’ poems, I had not heard this one until a few weeks ago when...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
During the week I was on my seven day silent retreat, several pivotal world events occurred: the Supreme Court decisions preserving the Affordable Care Act and the legalization of same-sex marriage; the coordinated bombings in France, Tunisia and Kuwait;...
